WoW in Schools

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Comment by Malinda/Melieline/Joie on November 25, 2009 at 12:20pm

Another Frontline: Digital Nation moment here entitled "Is WoW on Your Resume?" This is an excerpt from an interview with a veep at IBM. Please consider commenting on it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/blog/2009/11/is-wow-on-your-resume.html#comments

Comment by Kae on November 18, 2009 at 1:24pm

Nov 16th must be a WoW day.

Another instructor and I went into 2 of our college's Intro to Business classes. Students were already divided up into groups and each group could choose any of the following virtual worlds to do a business model project.

The VWs are

Club Penguin
Habbo Hotel
Metaplace
Second Life
and World of Warcraft

6 groups selected World of Warcraft, 3 selected Club Penguin and 1 selected Habbo Hotel. These students are all over 18 and when we surveyed only 3 were over 30.

We played Leeroy Jenkins this morning - they loved it. But more to demonstrate the whole reason the guild went in there was for a virtual good - "devout shoulders" for Leeroy.

So second class period, so far so good.

Comment by D. Cady on October 21, 2009 at 5:17pm

Kae, hopefully more administration will get on board. Don Margulis, who you may remember from the spring presentation we did in SL, is faculty fellow this semester and is looking closely on the use of virtual worlds, particularly gaming, in curriculum. We have also had some CCSSE interest as well.

Comment by Kae on October 21, 2009 at 10:31am

Quick comment - Recruiting at my community college asked that next month when 3 groups of middle schoolers are visiting that we do a presentation on our used of VWs especially WoW.

Comment by Geoff Allemand on October 2, 2009 at 7:12am

G'day from Australia. Any Aussie interest for this?

Comment by Lucas Gillispie on September 24, 2009 at 1:28pm

The WoWinSchool Project (and WoW's potential in education) were featured in Episode 40 of the RezEd Podcast: http://www.rezed.org/page/rezed-podcast-40-discussions

Comment by tevon calloway on September 21, 2009 at 5:29pm

what do you do here?

Comment by KerryJ on August 31, 2009 at 1:21am

WANTED: Guest educators

Two energetic TAFE educators here in South Australia - Ruth Frazer and Jacinta Ryan - have been working with customer service trainees who are setting up and running an event in Second Life -- and they want YOU to help them.

It should take no more than 10 minutes or so of you time -- more info here: http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/kjohnson/2009/08/31/wanted-guest-educators/

Comment by Lucas Gillispie on July 2, 2009 at 1:51pm

"Goblincakes? Behold! As soft as the Winterfall Snow, bursting with artificial lemon flavor, aerodynamically designed so that every bite slides down into your stomach at the speed of maximum enjoyment! Give me 25 silver!"

Sorry... couldn't resist.

Comment by linda polin on July 2, 2009 at 1:28pm

I went looking for an old post in my WoW blog, which I can't share because sometimes it's a bit raunchy, about math. Found it. Want to share. We all know about the literacy opportunities in WoW; here's some of the math. Actually, the kid makes a logic mistake common to word problems which creates a great need-to-know opportunity for thinking-it-through.

The entry:
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This afternoon, the new kid in the guild was chatting on the guild chat. Mostly I wasn't "listening" but then a snippet caught my eye.

"I just realized I can make 400 muffins an hour and if I sold them for 1 copper each, I could make 40 silver in 10 minutes."

One of our senior guild mates engaged him in chat to discover what these muffins were (magic muffins, which made me remember the muffins bit in the Illegal Danish movie, which made no sense at the time). I gather this is a cooking thing or alchemy or something.

After a few minutes, he posted again in guild chat, and you just know he had been calculating this answer in the space between his remarks:

"I could make 2.4 gold an hour."

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